Bombay Velvet to release on May 15,2015

Anurag Kashyap's ambitious period drama, Bombay Velvet, which was scheduled for a Christmas 2014 release, before being brought forward by three weeks to November 29 to avoid a clash with an upcoming Aamir Khan starrer, has now got a new release date: May 15, 2015. Confirming the same Kashyap told Mirror, "The film needed time, given all the work that was pending. Now that we have locked the release date, everyone associated with it is thrilled. An exciting marketing plan is being crafted to promote it in a way no film has been presented before."

Endorsing the decision to postpone the release by over six months, the film's producer Vijay Singh says that it was necessary because the Ranbir Kapoor starrer recreates the Mumbai of the '60s and as a result needed extensive visual effects which will only be completed by January end.

"It will definitely be the biggest release, in terms of prints, of the first half of 2015," he says. But why release such a big film during the summer vacations and the last leg of IPL cricket season? "Summer holidays are a good time to release a film and people would have had enough of cricket by then," argues Singh. "It's a Ranbir Kapoor film, a beautiful love story set against the rise of our city. It's authenticcinema with amazing performances and we are all excited about the May 15 opening."